So that's why my last email from paypalcom.tk forwarded me to a URL that looked like this:
http://joesdumbblog.net/wp-admin/plugins/css/https.paypal.com.php

Read it over. Understand it:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

You must decide what you trust unless you wrote it all yourself and built it yourself. You must also acknowledge that the system is insecure and work backwards from that trying to mitigate any damage and minimize risks.

Stop authenticating users via keys directly to a server. Use Kerberos v5. This centralizes the authentication to one or a set of servers. You then don't need to clean up key mess everywhere. Once you're running Kerberos you can choose the method of authentication to the central server. You can use password, public key (but only one in this case), OPIE (One-time Passwords In Everything), Google authenticator, RSA securid, biometrics, SRP (Secure Remote Password), or any combination of these to make things 2, 3, 4 or X factor authentication. The sky is the limit, and there's no crazy mess to have to follow up with.

When you need to have things automated, and you must use key authentication, then make sure that the area the key authenticates to is well sandboxed with something like a FreeBSD jail with access to nothing but the resources needed for the remote function to be performed.

This is all using standard practices that are over a decade old (and clearly spelled out in the FreeBSD Handbook among many other places).

Um, no. You are misreading the units of measurement. Lowercase "b" is bit. Uppercase "B" is byte. The unit in the article is byte, and there being 8 bits in one byte. To convert the speed in the article to the units that you are taking about, you would want to multiply by 8. Therefore, Google Fiber averages 20.4 Mb/s in the units that you are referring to. That's a pretty good average for service in the US.

I think it's high time for Google to issue an internet death sentence for a day or two to each movie studio that participated in this. They will see what happens when their internet presence disappears from Google.

The phrase is "at the conn" not com. It's a nautical term.

10 times out of 10, if you hack into the system where the attack is coming from, you will be hacking into a system owned by an innocent third party that was also hacked. You are then violating that party a second time. Lets take a more concerning scenario: You discover an attack that is originating from a competitor. You hack back into their system. This situation can only end badly. First, if they were responsible you have now spoiled evidence. Second, if they are not responsible and were also hacked as a jumping off point, you now have hacked into a competitor's system and compromised them. You should now have to pay damages because they have not way to tell that you didn't steal their corporate secrets while you were there in their system.

Now every script kiddie out there will be able to steal your bitcoins in addition to turning your website into a phishing page.

Do you have any idea how many phishing and malware links have wp-admin, wp-content, or wp-includes in the URL?

Take a look for yourself at Phishtank.com!

I want.

"many companies have already settled with TQP rather than take the case to trial, including Apple, Amazon, Dell, and Exxon Mobil."

I'm glad you live in a generally enlightened place where Obama's winning was treated with the same type of celebration that a soccer team winning would be. Unfortunately, here in the south Republicans showed their true face and their true feelings in places like Ole Miss and elsewhere when the election results were out. Racism and bigotry have finally destroyed the Republican party.

It's not that it's poorly led. The message itself scares the crap out of anyone who is young or female or not white.

Here. There's a phone call for you. 1996 wants their html back.

Off the fact that the Republican platform was bigoted, anti-women, anti-gay, anti-latino, anti-african american, anti-environmental, anti-science, mixed with a large does of religious crazy.

I've got news for you. Your IT department wasn't why you lost the young vote. Your get out the vote failing wasn't what scared away the Latino vote. And believe me, canvasing poorly wasn't what kept African Americans from voting for you.

The angry white man thing won't work anymore because us "those people" now outnumber you, permanently (thank goodness!).

Why would you call someone dumb who doesn't happen to live in one of those "some states"? There are 50 separate and quite different tax codes in the US. I certainly don't know all of them. I know two fairly well. That's it. Do you know the tax codes of all 50 states?